Wire clothes-pin



(No Model.)

A; E. FRANCIS, WIRE CLOTHES PIN.

No. 457,461. 1 Patented Aug. 11, 1891.

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ALLAN E. FRANCIS. OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

WIRE CLOTH ES-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,461,dated August 1], 1891.

Appliciition filed January 24, 1890. Serial No. 338,029. (No model.)

of the same.

The pin is formed from one piece of wire having a coiled head A with on'e'single leg B and onedouble leg C, formed by a return bend D of the wire. Both legs have crooks, as shown, and the single leg B springs in between the two side members of double leg C. The end of the wire forming the member 0 is looped and clasped around-the neck of the single leg B.

Having described my invention, I claim- The improved wire clothes-pin composed of one piece of wire and consisting of the coiled head A, single crooked leg B, and double crooked leg 0, the end of the wire forming the leg 0 clasped onto leg B near the head A, substantially as shown and described.

ALLAN E. FRANCIS. Witnesses:

GEORGE W. TIBBITTS. ABNER SLUTZ. 

